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Introduction

Overview

AVS DVD Copy is a compact and fully functional application that lets the user copy, clone or compile

own CDs, DVDs and new generation Blu-Ray discs. It also supports shrinking DVD video to let the user

backup a double layer video DVD onto one single layer DVD±R/RW and burning previously saved ISO

images onto different types of optical discs. The software has a very easy-to-use and understandable

interface that lets you create your own data and video discs effortlessly in just several mouse clicks.

AVS DVD Copy supports writing to the following disc types: CD-R, CD-RW, CD-RW High Speed, DVD-

R, DVD-RW, DVD+R DL, DVD-RAM, D-R, BD-RE, BD DoubleLayer-R, BD DoubleLayer-RE. See the

Appendix section for more detail on different disc types.

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System Requirements

Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista operating system (all of the last updates installed are

recommended);

Pentium III 800 MHz or higher;

128 MB RAM;

CD-RW, DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo drive, DVD-R/RW/DL, DVD+R/RW/DL, DVD-RAM, BD-R/RE

drive with 1394, USB2.0, ATAPI, SCSI, or CardBus interface;

At least 10 megabytes of free hard disk space; up to 200 Gb to create an ISO-image of a six-

layer Blu-Ray disc;

Enabling the DMA mode is recommended for proper use;

Administrative privileges are required for installation.

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Contact Us

If you have any comments, suggestions or questions regarding AVS DVD Copy or if you have a new

feature that you think could be added to improve our product, please feel free to contact us.

General information

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Technical support

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Sales

[email protected]

If you do not receive an answer to your question within 24 hours, please feel free to submit your

question via support form . Unfortunately some messages may be rejected by our mail server as

spam or as ones that contain viruses.

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Technical Support

AVS DVD Copy software does not require any professional knowledge. If you experience any problem

or have a question, please refer to the program help. If you cannot find the solution, please contact

our support staff.

AVS Media staff provides several forms of automated customer support:

Web Site Support

Please visit our website (www.avsmedia.com ) to explore the extensive customer support

information on AVS DVD Copy . Check our updates of Frequently Asked Questions and

How To section.

E-mail Support

You can submit your technical questions and problems via e-mail to

[email protected] . Please note that for more effective and quick resolving of the

difficulties we will need the following information.

System parameters (CPU, hard drive space available, etc.)

Operating System

The information about the DVD drives installed on your computer (manufacturer and

model)

Detailed step by step description of your action

Please do NOT attach any other files to your e-mail message unless specifically requested by

AVS Media support staff.

If you do not receive an answer to your question within 24 hours, please feel free to submit

your question via support form . Unfortunately some messages may be rejected by our mail

server as spam or as ones, which contain viruses.

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Program Interface

Main Window

AVS DVD Copy has a simple intuitive interface that is easy to understand and very easy to use. When

you launch the application you will see the Main Window where the basic controls of the program are

placed.

AVS DVD Copy Main Window consists of the following principal parts:

Top Toolbar - the toolbar with the main action buttons that let the user select the work mode

of the AVS DVD Copy program.

Main Area - the central part of the AVS DVD Copy program window that lets the user select

the main burning parameters or add files. Note, that the Main Area looks different depending

on the work mode of the program.

Disc size meter - the panel that shows the size of the most common disc media types and

the size of the data that is going to be written onto the disc. It is available in the Burn DVD ,

Burn DATA and Burn ISO work modes.

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Top Toolbar

The Top Toolbar consists of the action buttons that can be used to select the work mode of the AVS

DVD Copy program. You should use the appropriate buttons depending on the task you are going to

perform:

Button

Description

Use this button to copy your input DVD video onto a disc or your computer hard

disk drive folder with the size selected in the box in the lower part of the main

area. The DVD video will be remastered if needed to fit the selected disc size. You

can also cut out all the unnecessary languages, menus and extras present on the

DVD.

Use this button to get an exact copy of the input CD or DVD onto the other disc.

No compression will be used to record the files onto the target disc, so you should

bear in mind that it is necessary to use the same disc type and capacity for the

recording to be performed correctly.

Use this button to burn your DVD video files onto a disc so that it become

readable on your home hardware or software DVD player. You can also create an

ISO image of the DVD video disc, so that you could burn it later onto a disc if you

do not have such a possibility right now.

Use this button to burn any kind of data onto a CD/DVD/BD disc. You can also

create an ISO image of the disc you would like to record, so that you could burn

it later onto a disc if you do not have such a possibility right now.

Use this button to burn a previously created ISO image onto a CD/DVD/BD disc.

Use this button to open this program help.

Use this button to visit the AVS Media web site on the Internet.

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Main Area

The Main Area is the central part of the AVS DVD Copy program window that lets the user select the

main burning parameters or add files. It looks different depending on the program work mode. For

instance, for the Copy DVD work mode it will look the following way:

Here one can select the Source and Target drive or HDD folder, Copy mode for the DVD, check or

uncheck the Languages that will be included into the output DVD, set the folder for the temporary

files and the target DVD size. See the Copy DVD section for more on all these parameters.

If you select Burn DVD , Burn DATA or Burn ISO work mode, the Main Area will look the following

way:

Here you can select the target disc drive or ISO-image to record your data to (please, note, that using

ISO-image as target is disabled in Burn ISO work mode) and the files to record to your compilation.

You can use the buttons below to add files, ISO-images or folders, erase the inserted disc, set the

burning parameters and start disc burning or ISO-image creation . Please see the respective

chapters for more details on these actions.

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Disc Size Meter

Disc Size Meter is available in the Burn DVD , Burn DATA and Burn ISO work modes. It shows the

size of the current disc inserted into the CD/DVD/BD drive and the size of the data that is going to be

written onto the disc. Thus, depending on the disc type and its capacity the Disc Size Meter will look

differently for a CD , DVD Single Layer or DVD Double Layer and Blu-Ray discs of different

capacities.

For instance, for a Double Layer Blu-Ray disc it will look like this:

For a DVD Single Layer it will look like this:

For a CD the Disc Size Meter appearance will change like this:

The Marker shows the standard capacity of a CD-R or a CD-RW - about 700 Megabytes.

When you add data to your compilation the Disc Size Meter will show whether your added data is

going to fit your CD/DVD/BD or if it exceeds its capacity.

If the data size is greater than the capacity of a CD/DVD/BD you should either split your data into

parts and record these parts onto several CDs/DVDs/BDs or select another disc type with a larger

capacity. See the Appendix section for more information on different disc types.

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Express Menu

The Express Menu is used to facilitate access to the main features of the AVS DVD Copy . It can be

activated clicking the right mouse button within the Main Area of the program in the Burn DVD , Burn

DATA and Burn ISO work modes:

Item

Description

Level

Up

Use this option to go to a level that is parent to the current one.

Add...

(DVD,

ISO)

Use this option to add more files, DVD video or ISO-image to your compilation.

New

Folder

Use this option to create a new folder in your compilation list.

Delete

Use this option to remove the selected files or folders from the compilation list.

Delete

All

Use this option to remove all the files and folders and clear the compilation list.

Rename

Use this option to change the names of files and folders in your compilation list.

Settings

Use this option to open the Settings window and change the burning parameters.

Erase

Use this option to erase the disc in the optical disc drive.

Start

burning!

Use this option to start burning the created compilation.

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Working with AVS DVD Copy

Overview

The main work modes of the AVS DVD Copy are:

Copy DVD - use this mode to copy video DVD from one disc to another. The source disc will

be analyzed and, if you would like to copy from a greater size disc to a smaller size one,

recompressed to fit the target size. You can also remove unwanted languages, menus and

extras, if needed.

1.

Copy CD - use this mode to create exact copies of DVDs, CDs and BDs. No data will be

changed, so you will need to use the identical disc types for both source and target.

2.

Burn Discs - use these modes to record different type of files onto CDs, DVDs and BDs. You

can record DVD video (Burn DVD ), all kind of data (Burn DATA ) and ISO-images (Burn

ISO ) onto your target disc.

3.

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Overview

Copy DVD work mode is used to copy video DVDs and recompress the DVD video recorded on double-

layer media to fit single-layer discs.

The work with the Copy DVD mode is quite easy. It can be done in several steps:

Select the Source and the Target DVD drive (or hard disk drive folder, if you have your DVD

video on your computer HDD). You might also need to select the folder for the temporary files.

If you copy a DVD having only one disc drive, a temporary image on your computer HDD will

be created to let you record the resulting disc using the same disc drive. In this case please

make sure that you have enough free hard drive disk space available for the created

temporary disc image. Its size could be up to almost 9 gigabytes for a double-layer DVD. You

should also set the target disc size in the appropriate box.

1.

Select the Copy mode . You can either copy the entire DVD with all the menus and extras, or

copy the DVD retaining its structure and menus but removing all the extras, or copy only the

main movie.

2.

Select the necessary Languages and audio streams and remove the unwanted or unneeded

ones. This can enhance the quality of the output video.

3.

When all the settings are selected, press the Start copying! button to begin the DVD copying

process. Its progress will be shown on the progress bar:

4.

Note

:

in case the source and destination disc drives coincide, the process will be stopped

after the Shrinking source DVD phase, and the program will wait for you to insert

the DVD±R(W) disc so that the copying could be continued.

if you save the output DVD video onto your computer hard disk drive, the copying

process will consist of Opening source DVD and Shrinking source DVD phases

only.

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Source and Target

To start burning the discs you will need to select source and target drives.

Source (input) drive - the optical disc drive or a hard disk drive folder used to read the

information from. It can be either DVD video disc or hard drive folder containing DVD video

files. It can be selected from the drop-down list:

In this list you can see:

Drives - the list of all the optical disc drives that are present on your personal computer

(including virtual drives);

HDD folders - the list of three most recently opened hard disk drive folders, containing

DVD video files;

Open DVD from folder - select this option to open the standard explorer window and

choose the folder on your computer hard disk that contains DVD video files.

Target (output, destination) drive - the optical disc drive or a hard disk drive folder used

to record the information to. It can be either a recordable (rewritable) optical disc or hard

drive folder. As well as the source it can be selected from the drop-down list:

In this list you can see:

Drives - the list of all the optical disc drives that are present on your personal computer

(including virtual drives);

HDD folders - the list of three hard disk drive folders most recently used to save your

files to;

Copy DVD to folder - select this option to open the standard explorer window and

choose the folder on your computer hard disk to save the files to.

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Copy Modes

There are three main modes used to copy a video DVD onto the other one:

Copy the entire DVD

Copy DVD without extras

Copy only main movie

Button

Description

ENTIRE DVD

with menus and

extras

Use this button to copy the source DVD with all its structure - main movie,

menus and extras - onto the other DVD. If the size of the source DVD is

bigger than that of the target DVD, the video will be recompressed retaining

the structure of the original DVD.

WITHOUT

EXTRAS

extras will be

removed

Use this button to copy the source DVD and its structure onto the other DVD.

Although the structure will be retained, the extras will be removed and will

become unavailable from the DVD menu. At the same time this can enhance

the main movie quality in case the recompression is needed as sometimes

extras occupy quite a considerable part of the video DVD.

ONLY MOVIE

copy only the

movie

Use this button to copy only the main DVD movie onto the target DVD. The

DVD will be remastered and all the menus and extras will be removed in order

to prevent the movie from being too much compressed. It is very helpful if

you prefer to have the main movie in a better quality and would like to get rid

of the extras or if the extras contain commercials and trailers mainly.

The selected mode will be marked with the sign.

Depending on your needs and the input and the output disc size you can select the mode that will suit

better. For instance, if you would like to save a DVD-9 onto one DVD-5 disc, you will need to

recompress it so that it could fit the lesser capacity disc. If you do not need all the menus and extra

materials from the input disc, you can use the ONLY MOVIE mode to record the main movie only and

delete all the other materials to keep the quality better.

If you want to retain the disc structure (it can be helpful if the disc contains the deleted scenes from

the original movie or the director's cut that can only be selected from the DVD menu), you will need to

select the second mode - WITHOUT EXTRAS .

And finally, if all of the disc contents are important to you, you should select the ENTIRE DVD mode

to preserve the original DVD structure and contents.

Note : you can remove the unnecessary Languages in all the modes, thus enhancing the quality of

the output video.

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Language Selection

It often happens so that the source DVD contains more than one language. It is very useful when you

can speak these languages or learn them. But if you do not need them, they can be easily removed.

Moreover, if you compress the source DVD to fit the target disc, removing the unneeded languages can

help avoid stronger compression of the video, thus enhancing the quality of the output video.

When the disc or a hard disk drive folder is opened, all the available

languages for this DVD video can be found in the Languages window. You

can either check all of them or uncheck the languages you consider

unnecessary.

Note : there can be not only other languages but also audio variants of one

language that differ in the number of channels and audio codec used to

record them. It is usually done so that the DVD could be better played on

different hardware or software players. If you are sure, what track is best

played by your DVD player, you can leave only this track on the target DVD

and uncheck all the other audio tracks.

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Setting DVD Drive Region Code

Region code - the software protection used on DVD discs to prevent unauthorized playback and

duplication of the discs made in one country to be played in another country.

Motion picture studios want to control the home release of movies in different countries because

theater releases aren't simultaneous. They have required that the DVD standard include codes that

can be used to prevent playback of certain discs in certain geographical regions. Each player is given a

code for the region in which it's sold. The player will refuse to play discs that are not allowed in that

region.

Most DVD-ROM drives let you change the region code a few times, usually between 0 and 5. Once a

drive has reached the limit it can't be changed again unless the vendor or manufacturer resets the

drive. This limitation cannot be overridden.

There are 6 main regions: (1) Canada, U.S., US Territories; (2) Europe, Japan, South Africa, Middle

East (including Egypt); (3) Southeast Asia, East Asia (including Hong Kong); (4) Australia, New

Zealand, Pacific Islands, Central America, Mexico, South America, Caribbean; (5) Former Soviet Union,

Indian Subcontinent, Africa (also North Korea, Mongolia) and (6) China.

Before you can start copying your DVD, you will need to set up your DVD drive region code so that it

would coincide with the disc region code. In case they differ the following window will appear that will

let you set the drive region:

If you have several DVD drives on your computer, you might try and insert the disc into the other

drive that could have the region code matching the region code of the disc. If you still need to change

the code of your drive, you should bear in mind, that this will decrease the number of the drive region

changes left. When you change the drive region a certain number of times, you will not be able to

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